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Post by wildfire2099 on May 30, 2017 18:12:16 GMT -5
I didn't actually read the event, but IIRC, he is.. after 'Original Sin', he the 'man on the wall' he hangs out in some secret base on the moon and makes sure the aliens aren't coming. The movie Nick Fury (who is Fury's kid in the comic book universe), has essentially taken his place, though he may be dead right now.. they tend to use Coulson or Maria Hill mostly these days. Original Sin was pretty terrible, so I don't remember much, but I'm pretty sure he gave up that role to become the new Watcher. I didn't get that far (as you said, it's pretty terrible)
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Post by codystarbuck on May 31, 2017 0:42:31 GMT -5
I didn't actually read the event, but IIRC, he is.. after 'Original Sin', he the 'man on the wall' he hangs out in some secret base on the moon and makes sure the aliens aren't coming. The movie Nick Fury (who is Fury's kid in the comic book universe), has essentially taken his place, though he may be dead right now.. they tend to use Coulson or Maria Hill mostly these days. Original Sin was pretty terrible, so I don't remember much, but I'm pretty sure he gave up that role to become the new Watcher. A one-eyed Watcher? Anyone spot the flaw in this?
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Post by tingramretro on May 31, 2017 0:48:38 GMT -5
Is the original Nick Fury still around in the main Marvel universe? Sort of, though he's believed to be dead. He was revealed as having led a secret life as "the man on the wall", making a number of questionable decisions in order to defend Earth from alien threats, and eventually murdering the Earth's Watcher, Uatu, in order to protect his secrets. Various heroes took a stand against him, and Fury turned out to be a lot more formidable than he should have been, but supposedly died in the end. In fact, he was taken by the Watchers who punished him by basically making him one of them, chained to the Moon and cursed to see everything but never be able to interfere. He's now called "the Unseen". The same storyline also revealed that Dum Dum Dugan has been an LMD since 1968; he suffered terminal injuries and Nick placed him in stasis, using alien machinery to project his mind into a succession of android bodies, though Dugan himself was unaware of this and believed the reason he never grew any older was because Fury had shared his Infinity Formula with him.
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Post by tingramretro on May 31, 2017 0:49:56 GMT -5
Original Sin was pretty terrible, so I don't remember much, but I'm pretty sure he gave up that role to become the new Watcher. A one-eyed Watcher? Anyone spot the flaw in this? I think Watchers are omniscient; the actual physical eyes aren't a major consideration, I'd guess. Anyway, the same storyline gave him an artificial left eye.
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Post by tingramretro on May 31, 2017 0:53:25 GMT -5
Is the original Nick Fury still around in the main Marvel universe? I didn't actually read the event, but IIRC, he is.. after 'Original Sin', he the 'man on the wall' he hangs out in some secret base on the moon and makes sure the aliens aren't coming. The movie Nick Fury (who is Fury's kid in the comic book universe), has essentially taken his place, though he may be dead right now.. they tend to use Coulson or Maria Hill mostly these days. Actually, Nick Fury Jnr is currently starring in his own solo series.
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 31, 2017 6:39:26 GMT -5
Really? Huh... so the Agents of SHIELD book ended then? Or is that the one? (Hard to keep track of all the moving parts these days)
Funny Fury gets a magic eye, but no shoes...
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 31, 2017 9:20:20 GMT -5
I didn't actually read the event, but IIRC, he is.. after 'Original Sin', he the 'man on the wall' he hangs out in some secret base on the moon and makes sure the aliens aren't coming. The movie Nick Fury (who is Fury's kid in the comic book universe), has essentially taken his place, though he may be dead right now.. they tend to use Coulson or Maria Hill mostly these days. Actually, Nick Fury Jnr is currently starring in his own solo series. The art on that book is insanely great.
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Post by tingramretro on May 31, 2017 15:35:44 GMT -5
Really? Huh... so the Agents of SHIELD book ended then? Or is that the one? (Hard to keep track of all the moving parts these days) Funny Fury gets a magic eye, but no shoes... The S.H.I.E.L.D book ended, yes. And I don't think the Watchers wanted Nick to be too comfortable...
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 31, 2017 15:42:55 GMT -5
He looks like Doom at a BDS&M party.
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Post by tingramretro on May 31, 2017 15:46:42 GMT -5
He looks like Doom at a BDS&M party. Actually, he doesn't, because Doom no longer looks like Doom. Not since he got his face fixed, reformed, and took over as Iron Man...
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Post by sabongero on Jun 1, 2017 6:08:36 GMT -5
Thanks MDG. Which of the two would you recommend I start with first? JLA or 'Tec? Here is the link to my review of Englehart's Detective:
Tec review
Thanks. Read a couple of your Tec reviews and really piqued my interest in it. I'm curious about the JLA ones. I'll look them up.
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Post by Red Oak Kid on Jun 6, 2017 18:07:29 GMT -5
Just wondering. In the very early days of Marvel, circa 1963 when Stan was writing everything, who was the first writer he hired to help take the load off of him? Not counting Larry Leiber.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 6, 2017 18:20:02 GMT -5
Roy Thomas?
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Post by Red Oak Kid on Jun 6, 2017 18:49:47 GMT -5
Maybe. But I'm thinking there were others before Roy. Maybe Gardner Fox or Jerry Siegal, possibly using fake names. Don't forget, Marvel was still publishing Millie the Model.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jun 6, 2017 20:03:14 GMT -5
Just wondering. In the very early days of Marvel, circa 1963 when Stan was writing everything, who was the first writer he hired to help take the load off of him? Not counting Larry Leiber. That's be Robert Bernstein, Ernie Hart, or Don Rico, all of whom did scripts for Marvel in '63 (as "R. Berns," "H. E. Huntley," and "N. Korok." respectively). Cei-U! I summon the Terrible Trio!
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